"A one-party state dominated by provincial warlords is their ultimate objective. Nothing modern, efficient, or admirable about it."

The ultimate objective of the present move to change the Constitution is, therefore, not reform. The chief aim—and the fundamental effect that aim will have—is warlord power. Warlord power fuels “Charter change” as it has mutated during the present crisis. There is no grand ideal behind it, such as federalism. Put another way, federalism is what may excite the public, but it does not excite the incumbent, professional politicians who would compose a future parliament.

By Manuel L. Quezon III. Read the whole thing.